14 days ago
philgyford : YouTube - Daily Show - Federal Bail Out - I could link to the Daily Show every day but here Jon Stewart *really* gets going on Congress. If you only have two minutes to spare, skip to 2:30 for a very fine, and justified, rant. Can we clone him for the UK?
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18 days ago
Linkorama : How McCain Stirred a Simmering Pot - "I appreciate what you've done here, but I'm not going to sign on to a deal just to sign the deal," McCain told the gathering, according to Graham and confirmed by multiple Senate GOP aides. "Just like Iraq, I'm not afraid to
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23 days ago
Linkorama : PublicMarkup.org - PublicMarkup.org gives you the opportunity to review and comment on proposed bills before they are even introduced—or while they are pending—in Congress. (Including the bailout bill)
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9 month ago
deusx : H.R. 393: Universal National Service Act of 2007 (GovTrack.us) - "To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service..." Repeatedly reintroduced apparently to prove a point.
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17 month ago
jimray : Gonzales wants to criminalize attempted copyright infringement - Fuck a duck, this is ridiculous. Do these asshats not have any sense of irony? This is the definition of fascism based on corporate/government collusion.
deusx : Tech news blog - Gonzales proposes new crime: 'Attempted' copyright infringement | CNET News.com - "Require Homeland Security to alert the Recording Industry Association of America"
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19 month ago
plasticbag : There's a sort of interesting article on BBC News about Global Warming and Al Gore... - I'm a bit puzzled by the responsibility of organisations like the BBC to report on 'critics' who disagree with the overwhelming climate change consensus. If it was a gay issue that I felt strongly about, I might feel differently I suppose...
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19 month ago
Rod Begbie : The 463: Perhaps the Coolest Moment in the History of Congress and Why it Matters - Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA): "Maybe mash-ups are transformative new art that expands the consumers experience and doesn't compete with what an artist has made available on iTunes or at the CD store. And, I don't think Sir Paul [McCartney] asked for permissio [via] #
Andy Baio : Girl Talk, DJ Drama, and mashups discussed on floor of Congress - Congressman Doyle rocks the House [via]
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deusx : Dana Milbank - In the House, Suddenly Righteous Republicans - washingtonpost.com - "Anne Kornblut of the New York Times asked McHenry if his complaint might come across as whining. "I'm not whining," he whined."
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deusx : Democrats To Start Without GOP Input - washingtonpost.com - Republicans go QQ. "As they prepare to take control of Congress this week and face up to campaign pledges to restore bipartisanship and openness, Democrats are planning to largely sideline Republicans from the first burst of lawmaking."
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22 month ago
deusx : TPMmuckraker January 2, 2007 11:48 AM - "Republicans "have taken every one of the techniques that Democrats employed when they were in the majority, and ratcheted them up to another level," said the American Enterprise Institute scholar."
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23 month ago
deusx : BREITBART.COM - McKinney Introduces Bill to Impeach Bush - "McKinney, a Democrat who drew national headlines in March when she struck a Capitol police officer, has long insisted that Bush was never legitimately elected."
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24 month ago
jimray : Republican Contract with America - This is certainly interesting to read 12 years later - they're kicking themselves for that whole "have to obey laws" thing (thanks, Resh!)
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25 month ago
deusx : DownsizeDC.org | Make Congress Read the Bills Campaign - "For Members of Congress, fiduciary responsibility means reading each word of every bill before they vote. But Congress has not met this duty for a long time."
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25 month ago
deusx : BobGeiger.com: Frist Blames Democratic Minority for Do-Nothing Congress, Gets Spanked - "Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) ... was on Frist faster than Halliburton snaps up a no-bid contract."
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25 month ago
jimray : LegiStorm - The Web's only source for congressional staff salaries
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29 month ago
deusx : Attorney General prepared to quit over Jefferson probe: NYT - Yahoo! News - "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI director Robert S. Mueller III said this week that they were prepared to quit if the White House directed them to relinquish evidence seized in a disputed search of a House member's office, The New York Times rep
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29 month ago
deusx : Breach Was More of the Spirit, Not the Letter, of the Constitution - "Both the search warrant for Jefferson's office and the raid to execute it were unprecedented in the 219-year history of the Constitution."
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29 month ago
deusx : House Leaders Demand Return of Seized Files - New York Times - "Reckless Justice: Did the Saturday Night Raid of Congress Trample the Constitution?"
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31 month ago
jimray : WP: House GOP leader well traveled - "House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (Ohio), who rose to power in the wake of a congressional lobbying scandal, spent the equivalent of nearly six months on privately funded trips over the past six years, according to a new study by a nonpartisan resear
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41 month ago
jimray : Rick Boucher, the Wired interview - Almost makes me want to move back to Virginia. Almost.
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42 month ago
kellan : The Futurologian Congress - The only place to find out about friendpeida , podchalking, napcasting, or modating #
joshua : THE FUTUROLOGIAN CONGRESS - most of these don't exist yet. get cracking, people. my bet's on napjacking
deusx : THE FUTUROLOGIAN CONGRESS - "In The Futurological Congress, Stanislaw Lem's protagonist finds himself discussing futurology with a scientist and discovers it has been superceded by futurology — the science of predicting the future by making up words and guessing what they mig
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43 month ago
jimray : Who voted for the bankruptcy bill? - Sort by constintuent median household income! [via Talking Points Memo]
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43 month ago
jimray : Jack in the House - How Jack Abramoff bought Congress
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